Archived Events

Recorded
May 9, 2012 4:00 PM (EST)

Sam Waterston

Emmy award-winning actor Sam Waterston is the recipient of the Goodermote Humanitarian Award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his longtime support of refugees around the world. Waterston was presented with the award at a ceremony at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md., on May 9.

Mountains Beyond Mountains - A Panorama of Vaccine Clinical Trials

Recorded
May 2, 2012

Katherine L. O'Brien, MD, MPHProfessor, Department of International Health,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. O'Brien is a recognized international expert in the areas of pneumococcal epidemiology, pneumococcal vaccine trials and impact studies, and surveillance for pneumococcal disease. She shares stories and lessons learned about the power and unintended consequences of vaccines, through her work treating children in Haiti, and on American Indian reservations.
Sponsored by Office of the Dean

It All Starts with Epi: The Integration of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology and Epigenetics

Recorded
April 30, 2012

Dani Fallin, PhDProfessor, Department of Epidemology,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In this lecture, Dr. Dani Fallin unpacks the factors that can increase disease risk, including genetics, environment and age, to help us better understand the relationships among the disciplines of epidemeology, genetic epidemeology and epigenetics.
Sponsored by Office of the Dean

The 6th Annual George G. Graham Lectureship: Malnutrition: Fundamental Lessons When Standing on Shoulders of Giants

Recorded
April 19, 2012

Michael HN GoldenProfessor Emeritus Department of Medicine,
University of Aberdeen

Professor George G. Graham, MD, founding director of the Human Nutrition Division in the Department of International Health, was a leading expert in child nutrition whose discoveries continue to guide infant and child feeding practices. Family and friends endowed the School's first chair in human nutrition in his name in 2005, and in 2008 the Middendorf Foundation provided the Department's first endowed lectureship, in Dr. Graham's name, to highlight child and maternal nutrition issues of public health importance.

Health Systems, Planning, Results, and Evidence: Why Nothing is as it Appears

Recorded
April 18, 2012

David H. Peters, MD, MPH, DrPHProfessor, Department of International Health,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

David Peters chronicles his quest to to find sustainable solutions to improve the health of disadvantaged people. Based on field work over decades in Uganda, the Phillipines, Sri Lanka, across Africa, in Afghanistan and with the World Bank, Peters believes to improve people's health, there is a continuous need to find different strategies and new ways of understanding how systems work. In this lecture Peters explains the complex adaptive system (CAS) approach to understand initiatives and scale up health services.
Sponsored by Office of the Dean

Pe Thet Khin on Fixing the Health System of Burma

Recorded
April 10, 2012

Pe Thet Khin, MDMinister of Health,
Myanmar

Burma's minister of health Pe Thet Khin has two overriding goals: to enable citizens to reach their life expectancy and to ensure that every citizen is free from disease. He spoke to an audience at the Bloomberg School on April 10, 2012 about his vision and most pressing challenges: a severe shortage of health care workers and qualified health educators, inadequate health care facilities and substandard maternal and child health care.

Health Challenges in Haiti

Recorded
April 5, 2012

Jean William Pape, MDFounder and Director of GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,

A massive earthquake, political unrest and a cholera epidemic. These are the issues, among others, that Haiti has grappled with over the past two years. Public health leader Jean William Pape provides an update on efforts to manage cholera, HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases in the midst of massive economic, political and infrastructural challenges.
Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health

Recorded
March 27, 2012

David M. Bishai, PhD, MD, MPHProfessor,
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Sweden has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. But back around 1800 the average Swede only lived about 30 years. How did this drastic change in life expectancy happen? Dr. David Bishai explores that question in this talk, and discusses what can be learned from the hygiene revolution of the 19th century, in order to help other countries increase their life expectancies, only faster.

Will Allen: Growing Power and the Future of Food

Recorded
March 9, 2012

Will Allen, BAFounder and CEO,
Growing Power Inc.

Urban farming pioneer and visionary Will Allen spoke at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in March 2012, sharing information and insight into how his "Growing Power" farms produce a high volume of food in urban communities, profitably, and to the communities' benefit."